JOH̄NES MAZONVS
DE ALEXĀ PINXIT,
is by Giovanni Massone, who worked at Alessandria in the second half
of the fifteenth century; it contains the portraits of Pope Sixtus IV.
with St. Francis of Assisi and Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere under
the protection of St. Anthony of Padua. Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere
was Bishop of Savona about 1483; he was in 1503 elected Pope under the
title of Julius II., and became the patron of Raphael.
The remaining pictures of this school are of little account. Bernardino
Campi (1522-1592?) is represented by a _Mater Dolorosa_ (No. 1202); and
Bartolommeo Manfredi (1580?-1617) by a _Fortune Teller_ (No. 1368), a
subject which demonstrates the Decadence in full operation. Giovanni
Paolo Panini (1695-1764), who came to Paris in 1732 and became an
Academician, seems to have got some satisfaction out of committing to
canvas a _Concert given at Rome on Dec. 26, 1729, in Honour of the
Birth of the Dauphin, the son of Louis XV._ (No. 1409) and a large
_Interior of St. Peter’s at Rome_ (No. 1408), the latter being signed
and dated 1730.